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Originally Posted by holliday1925
At the 2006 National Convention, the "gentleman's agreement" was taken out of the bylaws that was written back from the 1998 National Convention basically saying that all-male chapters have the right to stay the way it was. When they took the agreement out, nationals presented a deadline to those chapters that were still single-gendered to be fully coed by the start of the 2008 National Convention.
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Article and Section please.
Note, the changes from the 2006 convention can be found at
http://www.apo.org/site/site_files/tnt/2007_Spring.pdf (pages 12-15). All of the changes regarding all-male chapters are in the *resolutions*. Resolutions and by-law changes take different percentages to pass. If the National Fraternity had been able to go co-ed by resolution, then women would have been full members in 1974. (the vote in 1974 for full membership for women got about 61% of the vote, not enough to change the bylaws)
And the deadline turned out not to be...
Frankly, I wouldn't be *that* surprised if at some of the HBCUs that neutral recruitment (changing from "men" to "students" rather than changing from "men" to "men and women" in the recruitment materials) probably wouldn't actually lead to the chapter attracting women. What the RD's reaction would be, I don't know.